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Show HN: Metacheck – preview how any link appears on social media and chat apps

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165 points talljohnson1234 | 2 comments | 11 Mar 25 20:53 UTC | HN request time: 0.431s | source

Hey HN,

I’ve been an indie hacker for a while, but I haven’t had much success with my past projects. Recently, I came across Marc Lou’s advice about building free tools just for fun, so I decided to give it a shot.

I built Metacheck, a simple tool that lets you preview how any link will appear on Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Whatsapp, Telegram, and other platforms. No API keys, no setup—just paste a link and see the preview.

Why I built this I often ran into issues where social platforms displayed broken or unexpected link previews. Debugging Open Graph meta tags was annoying, so I made a tool to make it easier.

How it works Fetches metadata from any URL Parses Open Graph & Twitter Card tags Shows real-time previews of how the link will look when shared

Try it out: https://metacheck.appstate.co/

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imcritic ◴[15 Mar 25 14:32 UTC] No.43372784[source]▶
An error occurred in the Server Components render. The specific message is omitted in production builds to avoid leaking sensitive details. A digest property is included on this error instance which may provide additional details about the nature of the error.
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1. talljohnson1234 ◴[15 Mar 25 15:01 UTC] No.43372957[source]▶
Will look into this issue and push a fix.
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2. imcritic ◴[16 Mar 25 10:51 UTC] No.43378054[source]▶
Seems to work today. Nice service, thank you for it!